Last month, we talked about evangelicals’ illusions of a massive revival going on with Gen Z, who are people between the ages of about 13-28. Even at the time, those claims seemed largely to derive from evangelicals’ fantasies. But if anything, these fantasies have only gotten more insistent within that Read more…
In Alpha Course’s seventh video, we find some of its creators’ most fanciful guesses yet about exactly how their god and religion operate. This one covers divine guidance, which almost all Christians believe their god offers believers as a perk. Despite its nearly-universal status, however, they can’t actually tell us Read more…
On September 23rd, 2025, the Rapture failed to happen. Again. Yet another totally-divine prophecy from Jesus turned out to be a false alarm. Thankfully, though this one blew up on TikTok and YouTube, it didn’t go nearly as far as some previous ones did. But what of the aftermath for Read more…
Another day, another sex abuse crisis in an authoritarian flavor of Christianity. This time, it’s the Jehovah’s Witnesses facing the music. Authoritarian Christians keep thinking it won’t happen in their church, right up until it does. And when—not if—it does, they act completely shocked. They shouldn’t. Any really authoritarian religious Read more…
It’s been a hot minute since the last Rapture scare, but here’s the newest one. Various grifters have latched onto September 23, 2025 as the big day when Jesus whisks all five TRUE CHRISTIANS™ on Earth up to Heaven, leaving nothing but clothes on the ground to mark where they Read more…
In a 2025 article from Archaeology Magazine, Andrew Lawler suggests an interesting source of Jews’ cultural taboo about eating pork. He thinks it might have more to do with their hatred of the Roman Empire than anything else. The more I thought about this suggestion, the more plausible it sounded. Read more…
Among evangelical these days, their fondest hope is for revival. They want Jesus to send them a massive new influx of fervent converts and re-stoke their own zeal with divine strength. Right now, their current belief is that there’s a quiet revival happening across the western world, particularly among Gen Read more…
On September 2nd, Pew Research released yet another blockbuster post about secularization. It reveals that the process of secularization tends to begin with lowered participation in religious rituals, followed by fading of religious identity and eventually even de-prioritizing even affiliation in name only. This study has got to be worrying Read more…
In Alpha Course #6, Christians try very very hard to make the Bible sound utterly relevant and important to everyone’s lives. They fail, of course, just like every other video so far has failed to accomplish its own stated goals. But as usual, it’s how specifically they fail that should Read more…
Evangelicals can’t defeat actual atheism, so they vastly prefer strawman atheism—their own unique and deliberate mangling of atheism. The real thing is impenetrable to them, and they very clearly realize it. But this strawman form of atheism is much easier to tackle. Today, let me show you how what was Read more…